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plucker

plucker

1 5.6
A person or machine that pulls things off, like feathers
  • noun
  • /ˈplʌkər/
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  • The farmer used a special machine, known as a plucker, to remove feathers from the chickens after they were processed.
  • chicken pluckers

Examples

  • He was a chicken-plucker who'd always wanted to pluck a black chicken because they were so rare in Germany, and those he saw were already being plucked by someone else.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • I'm the mother pheasant plucker.

    Chuck & Buck (2000)

  • My life as a mother pheasant plucker is pleasant.

  • I'm a mother pheasant plucker, I pluck mother pheasants.

    Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)

  • I'm the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker to ever pluck a mother pheasant.

    Chuck & Buck (2000)

  • During harvest season, skilled pluckers carefully pick ripe strawberries from the fields to ensure they are perfect for sale.

  • To prepare for the feast, the chef hired a professional plucker to quickly remove the feathers from the ducks.

Synonyms

picker
vsplucker
20 1.4

A person who chooses or gathers items, often fruit

is used for both people and tools that remove items rather than only people
puller
vsplucker
1 4.2

A tool used to take something out of its place

focuses on taking parts off a surface rather than extracting whole objects

Surface Forms

plucker singular
pluckers plural

Morphology

plucker = pluck (transparent) = pluck + er

The word 'plucker' is transparently derived from 'pluck' with the agentive suffix '-er', indicating a person or device that performs the action of plucking.

Etymology

Plucker comes from the verb pluck, which means 'to pull off'. Think of someone pulling feathers or fruit by hand, so a plucker is a person or machine that removes things by pulling.